Lois Lane Snuck into The Cisco Kid
Phyllis Coates isn’t famous for her four-part appearance in The Cisco Kid. She’s famous for being Lois Lane in some of the earliest Superman films and TV serials. She starred as Clark Kent’s girlfriend in the 1951 movie Superman and the Mole Men. It’s not a particularly good film, but it has the unique distinction of being the first movie based on a DC Comic book character.
She then starred in the first season of the TV show Adventures of Superman. You’d be amazed at how adult the themes were. Nobody thought comics were just for kids in the 1950s.
